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Body weight of Italians: the weight of Education
Atella, Vincenzo; Kopinska, Joanna - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2011
In this paper we empirically study the relationship between education attainment and Body Mass Index (BMI), using as … BMI and provide evidence that the effect of education on BMI is greater in magnitude for the overweight and the obese …. This effect is reinforced (three times greater) once we account for the endogeneity of some of the determinants of BMI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008874619
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Double coverage and demand for health care: Evidence from quantile regression
S, Moreira; P, Pita Barros - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962216
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Body weight and socio-economic determinants: Quantile estimations from the British Household Panel Survey
Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - 2010
This work examines the socio-economic determinants of body weight in UK by means of two recent waves from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results support some findings in the literature, but also point to new conclusions and show that quantile regression estimates are quite different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288934
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Body weight and socio-economic determinants: quantile estimations from the British Household Panel Survey
Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
from the British Household Panel Survey. While the patterns of overweight and obesity have drawn economists’ interest in … underweight and normalweight subjects but they are not significant for people affected by higher obesity prevalence rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695092
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Smoking habit changes and body weight: causal estimates from the British Household Panel Survey
Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
associated with increased obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112315
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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio-economic causes
Dang, Rui - 2015
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany … for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed … are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376884
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Testing for Stock Market Contagion: A Quantile Regression Approach
Park, Sungyong; Wang, Wendun; Huang, Naijing - 2015
Regarding the asymmetric and leptokurtic behavior of financial data, we propose a new contagion test in the quantile regression framework that is robust to model misspecification. Unlike conventional correlation-based tests, the proposed quantile contagion test allows us to investigate the stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288395
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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012: A decomposition analysis of socio-economic causes
Dang, Rui - 2015
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany … for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed … are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379818
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Theoretical and Empirical Differences Between Diagonal and Full Bekk for Risk Management
Allen, David; McAleer, Michael - 2017
The purpose of the paper is to explore the relative biases in the estimation of the Full BEKK model as compared with the Diagonal BEKK model, which is used as a theoretical and empirical benchmark. Chang and McAleer [4] show that univariate GARCH is not a special case of multivariate ARCH,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819462
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Determinants of the level of indebtedness for Brazilian firms: A quantile regression approach
Oliveira, Guilherme Resende; Tabak, Benjamin Miranda; … - In: EconomiA 14 (2013) 3-4, pp. 123-138
We investigate the determinants of the capital structure of Brazilian companies between 2000 and 2009. We use a quantile regression model and compare its results with the ones provided by conventional models (least squares and fixed effects). We show that the effects of the capital structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858392